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Online 16.2.12 Market Watch:
A commonsense alternative to leaseholds
Mail
Online 12.12.11 Tycoon pushes
up leaseholders' fees by trading with connected firms
The
Telegraph 4.12.11 Leaseholders
'overcharged' £700m for management fees according to Which?
Mail
Online 1.11.11 Which? investigates
leasehold charges
A Which? investigation highlights that leaseholders
are losing £700m in excessive service charge fees
Which?
26.10.11 Leaseholders take
action against managing agents
Increasing numbers of leaseholders take
action against property management companies
Financial
Times 9.09.11 Do we need terrorism
insurance for our flats?
Is terrorism insurance necessary for blocks not
in city centres?
Mail
Online 31.07.11 Residents
face demand for terrorism insurance
Leaseholders question insurance demand
for terrorism cover in Walthamstow, London
Guardian
15.07.11 CCTV threat to elderly
residents in Peverel block
Mail
Online 10.03.11 Why retirement
flat operators are still charging exit fees despite OFT warning
BBC
Radio Four You and Yours 3.03.11 Now
squeezed pensioners see the value of their flats plummet
Mail
Online 28.02.11 Is your lease
running out? Act now or costs can spiral
Extending your lease needn't
be so tough
Guardian
Money 26.02.11 Leasehold:
a battle to fight and win
Grant Shapps is wrong. Stiffer regulation of
property managing agents is urgently needed
Guardian
Money Blog 19.02.11 Sack your
property manager for a new lease of life
Leasehold problems? Here's what
you can do (including contacting the FPRA)
Guardian
Money 19.02.11
Tchenguiz forfeits £220m
offshore companies
The complex property empire created by Vincent Tchenguiz
has been quietly surrendered to lending banks.
Guardian
12.02.11 The Peverel Tenants
Who Are Fighting Back
Tenants tell of how they are fighting Peverel all
the way to the tribunal over excessive fees and poor service.
Guardian
12.02.11 Leaseholders take
on the managing agents
Flat-owners have had enough of excessive service
charges and are setting up their own management companies.
The
Independent on Sunday 30.01.11 Times
Online: Kingston leaseholders' victory over Peverel
Charter Quay
RA (CQRA) report that the Times Online covered their fight against Peverel. (As
Times Online is now a subscription service, we cannot link to the article, but
CQRA report it on their website
CQRA
2.01.11
About
1.8m leaseholders suffer £720m service charge rip off
Independent
block managers estimate that property managers typically over-charge by 30pc.
The
Telegraph 7.01.11 BBC
Rip off Britain on exit fees
Programme looks at leasehold issues
and exit fees.
Rip
Off Britain 13.12.10 The
£700million scandal of property service charges
Two million flat
owners are wasting £700 million in service charges due to greedy agents,
leaseholder apathy and ignorance
Mail
Online 13.12.11 BBC
Rip off Britain on leasehold
Programme looks at leasehold issues
and exit fees.
Rip
Off Britain 1.12.10 Protecting
the Vulnerable in Sheltered Housing
Margot James MP, says regulation of
housing providers is key in the provision of sheltered accommodation.
ePolitix.com
17.10.10 Pensioners 'hit by
excessive charges' in retirement properties
AGE UK report suggests that
1000s of pensioners living in retirement properties are being over-charged by
unscrupolous managing agents.
Mail
Online 28.10.10 Managing
agents ripping off homeowners
A million homeowners and those who
live in retirement homes are left at the mercy of over-charging managing agents.
thisismoney.co.uk
27.10.10 Elderly
lead fight against freeholder fees
Age UK says charge system is flawed
but Government rejects reform. Alison Shepherd and Julian Knight report on a growing
row.
The
Independent on Sunday 3.10.10 FPRA
Chairman Bob Smytherman appeared on Radio Kent's Breakfast programme on 20
September 2010 to talk about leasehold exploitation.
Listen
to the podcast BBC
Panorama exposes decline in wardens in sheltered accomodation
Unite Union
protests the replacement of residential wardens with floating temporary workers
ePolitix.com
24.08.10 Housing Minister
says all is well with leaseholders. He'd better think again...
Julian
Knight writes that the Housing Minister Grant Shapps must be deluded or doesn't
give a damn about leasehold.
The
Independent on Sunday 11.07.10 Don't
be conned by excessive service charges
Leaseholders faced with suspicious
service charges successfully challenge landlords.
The
Independent on Sunday 11.07.10 Call
for change to leasehold law
BBC news about excessive costs faced by leaseholders
seeking to extend their leases.
BBC
News 5 June 2010 This exploitation
of leasehold homeowners must stop
Nigel Wilkins of the Campaign for the
Abolition of Residential Leasehold (CARL) writes how landlords profit excessively
at the expense of leasholders.
The
Guardian 12.05.10 Disgruntled
leaseholders have rights too
Disgruntled leaseholders forking out service
charges with nothing to show for it are not powerless.
The
Independent 11.04.10
A bitter bill to
swallow
Leasehold homeowners financially crippled by unexpected service
charges.
Metro
19.03.10 'Should I buy the
freehold to my flat?'
Answer: yes, because it gives you control.
The
Independent 3.03.10 Buy-to-let
speculators miss out on increasing the value of their flats by not participating
in Right to Manage
Right to Manage is one of the easiest ways of protecting
investments in leasehold flats, says LEASE.
Investor
Today 30.03.10 Regulation
calls for retirement leasehold industry
LCampaigners call on the Government
to regulate the retirement leasehold industry.
Timesonline
20.02.10 Beware the menace
of the expiring lease
Leaseholders warned that lease extension costs esculate
when the lease drops below 80 years.
The
Independent 24.01.10 Retirement
home companies accused of overcharging service charges
Residents of retirement
homes are urged to fight against excessive charges.
Timesonline
26.09.09 Channel Four News story
on retirement home exploitation
Looks at excessive charges to elderly
leaseholders in homes owned by Vincent Tchenguiz/Consensus
C4
News 1.09.09 Rise in complaints
about soaring service charges
The Leasehold Advisory Service (LEASE) reports
an increase in complaints about heavy service charges
Timesonline
29.08.09
Developer's charge for electricity
shocks leaseholders into action. Leaseholders pay excessive electricity bills
because developer has monopoly of suppy
The
Observer 16.08.09
Leaseholders behind many
of Britain's leasehold problems
Letter writer argues that leaseholders
themselves can be a problem
The
Argus 28.07.09
Flat-owners pay as insurers
and agents split cash
Another story about block
insurance over-charging
TimesOnline
25.07.09 The Money Doctor: Must
We pay for a service we don't receive? Peverel retirement home lessee questions
service charge demand
Daily
Mail 15.07.09 Is it time to abolish our existing
leasehold laws?
For and against arguments in The
Observer's Question of the Week.
The
Observer 14.06.09 Leaseholders left flat broke
as service charges shoot through the roof. Leaseholders
tell of managing agents which hike up charges
The
Observer 5.04.09
Now
angry leaseholders kick back at the brokers
How flat owners could be
paying up to double the rate for buildings insurance, thanks to hidden commissions
being shared out between brokers and managing agents
The
Observer 1.03.09 Why conditions
may be perfect for haggling with your freeholder over the cost of extending
your lease, as lease extension value is linked to falling property values
The
Observer 1.03.09 Block of
flats where rubbish is sucked away in underground tubes
Story about
experimental rubbish disposal system
(London)
Evening Standard 11.02.09 How soaring charges
soured the dream of 'affordable' flats
Rotten estate management and high
service charges in a block with shared ownership flats.
Guardian
31.01.09 Sold down the river
Leaseholders deal with shoddy managing agents
The
Sunday Times 30.11.08 Managing to overcome
rack and ruin. Shocking tale of neglect at an unsafe
and uninsured block of flats
The
Observer 4.05.08 Ten
things you need to know about...leasehold and freehold properties
General
information about leasehold flats.
Timesonline
28.03.08 How to buy the freehold
to your flat or extend your lease
Timesonline
28.03.08 Flat Freedom
Buying
a flat can be much trickier than purchasing a house.
The
Observer 23.05.06
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